Dudewithasock, it’s an honour to have you here 
Hi there!
I am honoured to have you stop by! As you know, your training journal was my inspiration - I read all of it at least once wile waiting to get my own unicycle. I try to prepare, but all the theory in the world can’t teach your body how to unicycle. So your advice below, taken from your last post in your own journal pretty much sums it up:
However, once you’re working on it, some helpful hints and tips really can make a difference, and your journal is an excellent example of that.
I’m trying to describe and summarize my learning experiences as well here in my journal - but as I wrote in the first post, I am also including observations relating to my overall exercise and diet, of which unicycling plays an important part (it is more fun than all the other activities combined - and I say that even if I love swimming).
So, I think your advice above is really exactly what I am working on now with my mounting. I usually start with the back pedal at 4 o’clock and then I jump up. There is no choice of course when mounting a coker - I am almost 190 tall but I don’t have nearly long enough legs to stride across it (and I shouldn’t of course, the rule on any racing bike as well is that your legs should extend down to the pedals and not down to the ground - but the big difference between a bike and a coker is of course the distance from the pedals to the ground).
Thus I think that once I master freemounting on the coker, I shouldn’t be far off a running mount or even a jump mount.
PS: The weight indeed refers to my body, but the time is not for running a mile. First of all, we use the metric system, so when I am running I would state e.g. “I ran 10 km in 57 min”, as I have indeed done farther down - it’s been a while since last time I ran now, but I hope to get out jogging later this week.
The time instead refers to a morning exercise routine that I do every day (not always in the morning though). I would be very happy the day I could get out and run every morning (if ever), but then I wouldn’t do a “sprint” like one mile, but run for at least half an hour (so around 4-5 km).
Hmmm btw is 5 min on a mile a good time? I have no idea about such distances. Of course I have heard about the “dream mile” and Sebastian Coe and Chariots of Fire and all that, but I cannot remember any numbers. A quick calculation, however, tells me that doing 1609 m in 5 mins roughly translates to half an hour on 10 km, or two hours on a marathon (which is world record speed). And that is about twice as fast as I run…
Of course, the world record on 1609 m must be a lot better than 5 min, but I am nothing like a sprinter…
So I am happy working on my stamina, swimming and running long distances instead. I’m going to get better on my interval training now that I feel I have a decent “basic form”, and of course unicycling completes the picture, giving lots of leg and core muscle strength, plus interval training is inherent (at least until I master stable riding over long distances/times).
All right, time for dinner… I got back 3 hours ago, should have eaten already…